Celebrating Christmas disrespect Jesus Christ?!

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In Matthew 15:9 Christ said, “But in vain they do worship Me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men”. Christ continued on Mark 7:9 “Full well you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your own tradition”. Christmas is a tradition of men and is not a command of God. God plainly commands, “Follow not the way of the heathen.” He allows them to make their own decisions. Human beings are free moral agents—free to obey or disobey God! But most people do not fear God, and Every year, throughout the world, on December 25th, hundreds of millions do celebrate Christmas! While God certainly could have made it known when Jesus Christ was born, yet He chose to hide it from the world’s eyes! Origen, an early Catholic writer, admitted, “…In the Scriptures, no one is recorded to have kept a feast or held a great banquet on his birthday. It is only sinners who make great rejoicings over the day on which they were born into this world”. The earliest Christmas celebration on Dec. 25 comes from the second century after Jesus’ birth. The first Christmas celebrations were in reaction to the Roman Saturnalia, a harvest festival that marked the winter solstice—the return of the sun—and honored Saturn, the god of sowing. Christmas is an annual tribute to the birth of Jesus Christ and a widely observed holiday, celebrated generally on December 25 by billions of people around the world. A feast central to the Christian liturgical year, it closes the Advent season and initiates the twelve days of Christmastide. Christmas is a civil holiday in many of the world's nations, is celebrated by an increasing number of non-Christians, and is an integral part of the Christmas and holiday season. Christmas has become a commercial season. It’s sponsored, kept alive, by the heaviest retail advertising campaigns of the year. You see a masqueraded ‘Santa Claus’ in many stores. Ads keep us deluded and eceived about the ‘beautiful Christmas spirit. The most common justification for Christmas celebration is that people have replaced old pagan customs and intents by asserting that they are now “focusing on Christ.” Many say that they are “honoring Christ” in their Christmas-keeping. Actually, (John 4:23-24)The true God commands that we “must worship Him in spirit and in truth”. Deuteronomy 12:32 made clear that God does not want us to mix His ways with any false ways: “What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: you shall not add thereto, nor diminish from it.” Most aspects of Christmas are not referred to in the Bible. Of course, the reason is that they are not from the Providence for they are not part of the way He wants people to worship Him.